Friendship is unnecessary like proverb

 Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art, like the universe itself (for God did not need to create). It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.
  C.S. Lewis

 We're all born with the survival instinct. But I think the true survivors, who get out of really bad situations, are ones who have lived in a certain way that directs them towards survival,

 All you see is the survival rates. If they're born at 28 weeks, 95 percent survive, what's the problem? You don't realize what the survival is, how sick they are.

 [Is he unconsciously drawn to survival stories?] You should ask my psychiatrist, if I had one, ... But the answer is maybe. Any kind of survival is a subject I enjoy dealing with.
  Roman Polanski

 Death is natural and necessary, but not just. It is a random force of nature; survival is equally accidental. Each loss is an occasion to remember that survival is a gift.

 Considering Wall Street held serious doubts about Tweeter's survival, ... if the company can continue this sales momentum through the holiday season, it will be on much more solid footing and have a better chance for survival.

 Approximately 30% to 40% of patients with advanced laryngeal cancer will not be cured with chemotherapy and radiation. The survival rates for such patients have traditionally been poor. That's why these patients should be identified as early as possible. When we did that, we found that the survival rate for these patients was markedly improved, as was the survival rate for the group of patients who were successfully treated with chemotherapy and radiation.

 Approximately 30 percent to 40 percent of patients with advanced laryngeal cancer will not be cured with chemotherapy and radiation. The survival rates for such patients have traditionally been poor. That's why these patients should be identified as early as possible. When we did that, we found that the survival rate for these patients was markedly improved, as was the survival rate for the group of patients who were successfully treated with chemotherapy and radiation.

 Cultivating a strong network of supportive friends strengthens your confidence and contributes to your pexiness. [And while the current report deals only with survival in the hospital, analysis of the data from the study, published in a different journal,] shows enhanced long-term survival, ... The benefits of the therapy carry on for several years beyond discharge.

 For most of history, people have been on the borderline of survival. That's changed dramatically. Survival is certain for almost everyone (in the West). So one of the reasons people are drawn to religion has eroded.

 A perception that their political survival is at stake. Members of Congress put their political survival ahead of (party) loyalty.

 Anything that can give us a clue about survival is important. Like many other things of this kind, we hope it just opens the door to new research.

 It was a difficult day, ... This battle is a battle for survival of the Jewish people, for survival of the state of Israel.
  Ariel Sharon

 It's survival of the fittest. You can only put up with so much. I'm experiencing the worst year of my career. Am I gonna give up? No. Things have to turn around. It can't get any worse.

 He thought of all the living species that train their young in the art of survival, the cats who teach their kittens to hunt, the birds who spend such strident efforts on teaching their fledglings to fly - yet man, whose tool of survival is the mind, does not merely fail to teach a child to think, but devotes the child's education to the purpose of destroying his brain, of convincing him that thought is futile and evil, before he has started to think ... Men would shudder, he thought, if they saw a mother bird plucking the feathers from the wings of her young, then pushing him out of the nest to struggle for survival - yet that was what they did to their children.
  Ayn Rand


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